Friday, November 18, 2011

What is the role of IIS
IS provides a redesigned WWW architecture that can help you achieve better performance, reliability, scalability, and security for our Web sites. IIS can support following Protocol HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SMTP Etc. We need to host the site on IIS, when request comes from client it first hits the IIS Server, then the server passed it to ASP.NET worker process to execute. Then the response also passes to client via IIS itself. 
Note only Hosting of Site we can create our FTP Server, SMTP Server using IIS itself. 
There are different version of IIS available like 5.1, 6.0, 7.0 etc
Windows Server 2008 - Windows Vista - Home Premium/ Ultimate - IIS 7.0 
Windows Server 2003 - IIS 6.0 
Windows XP Professional - IIS 5.1 
Now based on your working experience you can say that you have worked on IIS 5.1 and 6.0 or only IIS 7. Etc. 

1 comment:

subhi said...

Application pools are used to separate sets of IIS worker processes that share the same configuration and application boundaries. Application pools used to isolate our web application for better security, reliability, and availability and performance and keep running with out impacting each other . The worker process serves as the process boundary that separates each application pool so that when one worker process or application is having an issue or recycles, other applications or worker processes are not affected.
One Application Pool can have multiple worker process Also.

Main Point to Remember:
1. Isolation of Different Web Application
2. Individual worker process for different web application
3. More reliably web application
4. Better Performance

Though we can create new application pool IIS with different settings, but IIS having its own default application pool named : DefaultAppPool

IIS having three different Identity.
1. Local System
2. Local Services
3. NetworkServices

IIS having mainly two layer Kernel Mode and User Mode

Below are the subsection of both of them.
1. Kernel Mode
o HTTP.SYS
2. User Mode
o Web Admin Service
o Virtual Directory
o Application Pool

HTTP.SYS is the kernel level components of IIS. All client request comes from client hit the HTTP.Sys of Kernel level. HTTP.SYS then makes a queue for each and every request for each and individual application pool based on the request.
Whenever we create any application pool IIS automatically registers the pool with HTTP.SYS to identify the particular during request processing.

Below are the commonly used IIS Security settings

1 Anonymous
2 Integrated Windows Authentication
3. Basic Authentication
4. Digest Authentication
5. Passport Authentication